Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0d12de3562e17fb…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 4cc738f1bae5970bd3c9b92109fc9123 SHA-1: 96982dddb848987402dd6e48749e6f83b7d15d7c SHA-256: f0d12de3562e17fb86fe0d9e26fb3931838a88d765e0f98435ed3867f403873b
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file is an Excel spreadsheet identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot banking trojan. The primary attack pattern involves luring the user to open the malicious spreadsheet, which then executes a payload. While no specific scripts or document body were extracted, the heuristic detection is sufficient to infer the malicious intent and likely family.

Heuristics 1

  • ClamAV: Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0